Database Platforms Lead

Hitachi Automotive Systems Americas, Inc.; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Hitachi Automotive Systems Americas, Inc. is seeking a Database Platforms Lead to define and govern the enterprise database platform strategy and architecture. Lead HA/DR, performance tuning, and security while driving automation and modernization across on-premises and cloud environments.

You will collaborate with engineering, infrastructure, security, and application teams, mentor DBAs, and evaluate new database technologies to optimize costs and resilience across the organization.

Qualifications

• Experience with major database platforms and cloud databases.
• Familiarity with automation, infrastructure-as-code, DevOps, and CI/CD practices.
• Experience leading database migrations, consolidations, or modernization programs.
• Background in database observability, monitoring, and operational excellence.

Responsibilities

• Define strategy, architecture, and standards for enterprise database platforms.
• Oversee database operations, administration, monitoring, and support.
• Ensure high availability, backup, recovery, and disaster recovery capabilities.
• Manage performance tuning, capacity planning, and scalability.
• Define and enforce database security, access controls, and compliance requirements.
• Drive automation for provisioning, patching, monitoring, and maintenance.
• Support design, optimization, troubleshooting, and incident resolution.
• Lead upgrades, migrations, and modernization initiatives.
• Establish runbooks, procedures, and documentation.
• Collaborate with application, infrastructure, security, and network teams.
• Mentor and guide DBAs/engineers.
• Evaluate emerging database technologies and platform improvements.
• Monitor costs and resource utilization.

Skills

Oracle

SQL Server

PostgreSQL

MySQL

MongoDB

AWS

Azure

Automation

DevOps

CI/CD

Observability

Migrations

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Job description

FunctionIoTOur CompanyWe’re Hitachi Digital Services, a global digital solutions and transformation business with a bold vision of our world’s potential. We’re people-centric and here to power good. Every day, we future-proof urban spaces, conserve natural resources, protect rainforests, and save lives. This is a world where innovation, technology, and deep expertise come together to take our company and customers from what’s now to what’s next. We make it happen through the power of acceleration.Imagine the sheer breadth of talent it takes to bring a better tomorrow closer to today. We don’t expect you to ‘fit’ every requirement – your life experience, character, perspective, and passion for achieving great things in the world are equally as important to us.Job descriptionThe Database Platforms Lead is responsible for defining, designing, and governing the enterprise database platform strategy and architecture. This role ensures database technologies are scalable, secure, resilient, and optimized to support operational and analytical workloads across the organization. The position provides technical leadership for database standards, performance, availability, automation, and lifecycle management while partnering with engineering, infrastructure, security, and application teams.Key Responsibilities• Lead the strategy, architecture, and standards for enterprise database platforms• Oversee database operations, administration, monitoring, and support• Ensure high availability, backup, recovery, and disaster recovery capabilities• Manage database performance tuning, capacity planning, and scalability• Define and enforce database security, access controls, and compliance requirements• Drive automation for provisioning, patching, monitoring, and maintenance• Support database design, optimization, troubleshooting, and incident resolution• Lead database upgrades, migrations, and modernization initiatives• Establish operational procedures, runbooks, and documentation• Collaborate with application, infrastructure, security, and network teams• Mentor and guide database engineers or DBAs• Evaluate emerging database technologies and recommend platform improvements• Monitor and control platform costs and resource utilizationContribute to Organization:• Platform strategy and governance• Database standardization and best practices• Performance, reliability, and availability• Security, compliance, and risk reduction• Cost optimization and platform rationalization• Automation and self-service capabilities• Modernization and cloud migration• Incident prevention and root cause remediation• Scalable support for application and data teams• Long-term enterprise growth and operational excellencePreferred Qualifications• Experience with major database platforms such as Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, or cloud-managed databases.• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure• Familiarity with automation, infrastructure-as-code, DevOps, and CI/CD practices.• Experience leading database migrations, consolidation, or modernization programs.• Background in database observability, monitoring, and operational excellence.Where will this role impact:• This investment reduces operational risk, improves performance and reliability, strengthens security and compliance, and lowers long-term costs through standardization and automation. It also helps engineering teams move faster by providing approved patterns, expert guidance, and better platform support. In short, investing in this role protects the business, improves efficiency, and enables scalable growth.• Role will focus on automating our core functions – Platform DB Operations• Role will be leveraging AI to automate provisioning servicesAbout usWe’re a global, team of innovators. Together, we harness engineering excellence and passion to co-create meaningful solutions to complex challenges. We turn organizations into data-driven leaders that can make a positive impact on their industries and society. If you believe that innovation can bring a better tomorrow closer to today, this is the place for you.Fostering innovation through diverse perspectivesHitachi is a global company operating across a wide range of industries and regions. One of the things that sets Hitachi apart is the diversity of our business and people, which drives our innovation and growth.We are committed to building an inclusive culture based on mutual respect and merit-based systems. We believe that when people feel valued, heard, and safe to express themselves, they do their best work.How we look after youWe help take care of your today and tomorrow with industry-leading benefits, support, and services that look after your holistic health and wellbeing. We’re also champions of life balance and offer flexible arrangements that work for you (role and location dependent). We’re always looking for new ways of working that bring out our best, which leads to unexpected ideas. So here, you’ll experience a sense of belonging, and discover autonomy, freedom, and ownership as you work alongside talented people you enjoy sharing knowledge with.We’re proud to say we’re an equal opportunity employer and welcome all applicants for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, age, disability status or any other protected characteristic. Should you need reasonable accommodations during the recruitment process, please let us know so that we can do our best to set you up for success.